Trump isn’t running for president; he’s using this campaign to build a large and rabid following for his next media venture.

There will ne endless finger pointing over this. There’s no doubt the contractors (meaning the mgmt of those companies) deserve a lot of blame, but some of it has to go higher up, as well, to the event organizers and, of course, the IOC. I hope someone in the Project Management Institute writes a long white paper or…

[really funny sharknado joke no one else has thought of yet]

Wait — the Czech League of American Football???

Yeah, no kidding.

Are you now going to follow up by saying chickens don’t really cross roads...?

Well, there was a Cruz involved, so there’s that...

This is one of the few moves by the NFL in recent years that I love.

Yes, it was obvious the instant any of us heard about Durant moving to the GSWs that the landscape would be hip deep in TerribleTakes (TM). And Lupica’s is certainly particularly crappy. But I don’t know what’s less interesting, all those shitty takes or people like DM going batshit bugfuck insane over them.

Rankings like this are almost always flawed to the point of being nearly useless, simply because we all weight things differently. (Look up the microeconomic concept of a utility function, for example, which maps levels of consumption of various goods and services to overall happiness, more or less, for each…

Never underestimate the addictive p0wer of confirmation bias.

Isn’t this the point where some knuckle-dragging hockey fan jumps in and says you have to let them fight as an outlet for their emotions or they’d do something much worse to each other on the track?

Dear Texans who want to leave the US: Please do so. It will create a very valuable object lesson for other states or provinces considering such moves, and it will dramatically tilt US politics in a direction I prefer.

Holy fuck did I need this. And by “need this”, I mean REALLY need someone or something to reach deep into the pit, grab me by my shirt, and haul me back up into the light. And this did the job perfectly.

This is one of the few times when I think it makes sense to see what the player you traded away (meaning TT) does. TT has a ton of potential, and it’s very believable that he could turn into a major star in the NHL.

I think it would have both more fair and much more entertaining to do something like this:

Like many names for businesses and/or teams, this one will sound goofy until we’ve had to live with it for a season or two. Personally, I would have gone with a name with a Vegas or regional connection, like Scorpions (think of the jerseys!). But almost no one will talk about the name “Black Knights” by the end of…

Well, that pegged the needle on the TMI meter.

This is the kind of question I find myself asking routinely. A sports radio station I listen to once in a while has several people who stick up for virtually celebration or behavior, in the name of “making sports fun again”. These guys will bash anyone who so much as suggests there’s a line between “being/having fun”…

Exactly. If James is that thin skinned, then he just handed the GSWs and the rest of the league a great way to screw with him.